Shoestring-fastener.



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SHOESTRINGHFASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,519, dated November 27', 1900.

Application led J'nne 14,1900. Serial No. 20,282. m0 IllOdelJ To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, SETH BEACH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State ol' Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoestring-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a Shoestring-fas tener, and has for its object to provide a device for such purpose which is adapted to readily secure the strings after lacing by simply drawing the strings through the fastener until they are as tight as desired and that is as readily u nfastened by drawing the fastener.

I accomplish the object of the invention as hereinafter described, and illustrated in the drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view showing the manner of application of my fastener. Fig. 2 is a reverse plan view of the fastener. Eig. 3 is a cross-section on the line a: rc of Fig. 2 and Fig. 4 is a plan View of the fastener with the spring-bar removed and showing the diainetric opposite seri-ations formed on the rim.

In the drawings, 1 is the body portion of the fastener, preferably inade button-shaped, of any desired design as to its outer face, but shown in the drawingsin the ordinary couvexed form. The reverse side is provided with a cavity 2, preferably by concaving the body portion, and with a rolled rim 3, and within the cavity, integral with or secured to the body portion l, is astein a, projecting axially therefrom.

Diaxnetric to the rim 3 is provided a springbar 5, having its ends 6 resting on the riin and provided with orifices .7 to receive the lacing and having its body portion 8 iiexed inward and secured to the outer end of the stern 4, whereby the ends 6 of the bar 5 are compressed upon the rim 3. The portions of the rim 3 contacting with the ends of bar 5 are preferably provided with serrations 9.

To apply the fastener to a shoe-lacing, the ends of the lacing are each inserted through one of the ori'ces 7 from the outer side of the bar 5 and thence between the adjacent end of the bar and the rinn 3. The shoe may then be laced in the ordinary manner and the surplus of the lacing taken up and the shoe tightened by grasping the ends of the lacing and drawing the surplus through the fastenerl bar. When the lacing is tightened, the tension of the spring compresses the lacing upon the rim, whereby the lacing is secured against reverse movement. By providing the riin with serrations 9 the lacing is more securely held. To unlace the shoe, by grasping the body portion of the fastener and pulling it outwardly the tension of the spring is overcome and the ends of the spring-bar are released froln the rim, and the lacing is thereby pulled through the bar until the ends thereof again approach the fastener sufficiently to allowl the shoe to be unlaced.

To prevent the fastening from becoming detached from the lacin'g in the operation of unlacing, the lacing ends after being inserted through the orifices of the bar may be provided with any suitable enlargements or stops.

Itis apparent that my invention can be advantageousl y used tolsecure lacing-strings for other purposes, and I therefore do not restrict inyselfin its application to shoe-lacings alone.

What I claim isl. In a shoestri11g-fastener, the combination of a button, convexed upon its face and concaved upon the reverse side to form a cavity, and provided with an inwardly-rolled rim, a stein axial to the button and projecting outward from the cavity, a spring-bar dialnetric to the button, having its ends provided with orifices and resting upon the rin] of the button, with the central body portion flexed toward the stem and secured tothe end thereof.

2. Inashoestringfastener,thecombination of a button provided with a cavity upon its rear face and a rixn around the cavity, abutton-steni central to the cavity and projecting axially to the riin to a distance within the cavity, a spring-bar dianletric to the rim, having its ends provided with orifices and resting upon the rim of the button, with the central body portion iiexed toward the stern and secured to the end thereof, and seri-ations formed upon the rim at the points of contact of the spring-bar, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described.

' Toledo, Ohio, June 11, 1900.

SETH BEACH.

In presence of* R. L. Conn, D. W. Moon, Jr. 

